Ironing-board.



No. 858,375. PATENTED JULY 2. 1907. J. ELLIOTT.

IRONING BOARD. 5

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1906.

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JOHN ELLIOTT, OF COLORADO CITY, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO HENRY GIESING AND ONE-THIRD TO JOHN PERBULIA.

IRON ING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Colorado City, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in ironing boards and has for its object to provide a board which being equipped with a folding support and a combined clamp and brace, may be firmly held in operative position on a table, bench or analogous contrivance and which when not in use, may be folded to occupy the minimum of space. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in the various views of which like parts are similarly designated and in which Figure 1 -represents a side elevation of the device held in operative position on a table, Fig. 2a vertical central section therethrough, Fig. 3an underneath view of the device in the folded position, Fig. 4a longitudinal section along a line 44, Fig. 3, Fig. 5a cross section along a line 5-5, Fig. 3, and Fig. 6-a cross section taken along a line 66, Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates the ironing board shaped in the customary manner and provided with underlaid, transverse cleats 11 and 12. A support 13 is composed of two diverging legs 14, joined near their upper extremities by a fiat board or plate 15 and a subjacent, transverse cleat 16, disposed respectively on opposite sides thereof, and is connected with the board 10 at its lower surface, by means of suitably constructed hinges 17 Fulcrumed in proximity to the foremost end of the board by means of a bolt 18 which passes through the before named cleat 12, is a lever 19 composed of flexible material, either wood or metal, the short arm 19* of which terminates in approximate alinement with the adjacent end edge of the board. The opposite long arm 19, of lever 19. which normally is alined with the 10ngitudinal axis of the board, extending beyond the support 13 projects between the adjacent edges of the plate 15 and the cleat 16 and when the members are in the opened position, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, occupies a correspondingly shaped notch 20 in the lower edge of the plate or board 15.

The lever 19, engaging the lower surface of the cleat 12, is held against lateral displacement by'twt blocks 21 secured to the said cleat on opposite sides of the lever, while the bolt hole in the latter is made sufficiently large and the bolt 18 sufficiently long to permit a limited reciprocating movement of the lever in the direction of the board.

Itwill be understood that for convenience in manufacture the blocks 21 and the cleat 12 may be made integral.

When the members of the device are in the folded position, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 6, the support 1.3, as well as the lever 19,extend in parallel relation to the board, the outer extremities of the legs 14 engaging the outer surface of the stops 21 on cleat 12, while the lever 19, extending in alinement with the longitudinal axis of the board between the latter and the cleat 16, on the support 13, engages the outer surface of the plate 15 in between the upper extremities of the legs 14 which at this point arespaced a distance substantially equal to the width of the lover.

The various members are retained in their relative positions by means of a block 22, swiveled upon the cleat 12 to engage the adjacent leg 14.

The short arm 19 of the lever, and the adjacent end portion of the table compose cooperatively, a vise or clamp by means of which the device may be secured to a stationary support, such as the table 23 illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The board in this capacity performs the function of a fixed jaw while the arm 19 of lever 19 constitutes the movable jaw.

To place the device in operative position, the edge of. the table or bench is inserted between the two jaws after which the support 13 is moved about its hinges until it has assumed a position at right angles to the board. The long arm 19 of the lever 19, occupying the notch 20 in the lower edge of the plate 15, is during this operation flexed and forced downwardly with the result that owing to the consequent upward movement of the opposite arm of the lever, the device is clamped firmly in position on the table while by the tensity of he long arm 19 of the lever, the support 13 is held against inward movement.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:-

An ironing board comprising in combination, :1 board having a transverse cleat provided with :1 central pocket and with two terminal recesses, a flexible lever fulcruiued upon the said cleat, within the said pocket, and a support; ing em er. comprising two legs and a transverse connection, pivotnlly connected with the board, the said legs be ing arranged to occupy the recesses in (he clout when the member is folded upon the board, and one of the arms ot the said lever being adapted to produce in coil wrniion with an extremity of the said board, a clamping action upon an interposed object while ils opposite :irm extends in frictional engagement: with the said connection when the supporting member is moved in angular relation to the board.

In testimony whereof I have nllixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

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Witnesses F. W. DUSTIN, .T. 1). FAULKNER. 

